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As early as 2001, former president Kufuor’s government embarked on a process of ensuring equitable and universal access for all residents of Ghana and to ensure that within five years of implementation, all Ghanaian residents would be signed onto an insurance coverage to deal away with the problem of payout of pocket for essential services famously called “the cash and carry system”.

At the consideration and passage of the NHIS bill into law, the then NDC minority walked out of Parliament indicating their refusal to endorse this all-important national policy.

Years later, when another very important national policy for secondary school education was mooted by the NPP’s Presidential candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo, typical of the NDC, they sponsored at least 200 TV and radio adverts in opposition to it.

There's no denying the fact that Free SHS was the NPP’s major platform on education whereas the NDC had nothing significant.

Realizing that Ghanaians had bought into the NPP's vision to make secondary education free, the NDC later put across some knee-jerk policy of building 200 Community Day High Schools in four years. At the time of leaving office, not even 30 of those schools had been built.

It is therefore amazing to hear them later gleefully opine that they were already implementing Free SHS before the NPP took office in 2017.

Fellow Ghanaians, the NDC's half-baked policy on secondary education is not and cannot on any day be compared to that of the president Nana Akufo-Addo led government which has brought relief to over 1.4 million homes.

Indeed, elections have consequences! Let's vote for the decisive, visionary and pragmatic president; H.E. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to do more for Ghana.